Reparations Unlikely to Advance Far This Year

Reparations unlikely to advance far this year

As this year’s budget negotiations approached their crunch time in late May and early June, it was fast becoming clear that little would get done toward giving reparations to the unknown number of Californians who are descended from slaves. The number is unknown, for one thing, because California was never a formal slave state and no one knows exactly how many of the enslaved were brought here from the Deep South in the years leading up to, duri…

Reparations Would Only Exacerbate Racial Injustices

Last week leftists in Congress reintroduced the Reparations Now resolution, demanding that the federal government provide financial restitution “to rectify ongoing harms resulting from violations, by the Federal Government, of Black people’s human right to self-determination and freedom from discrimination.” Ambassadors with the Project 21 black leadership network strongly oppose this move, arguing that race-based reparations wouldn’t solve anyt…

Reparations are unlikely to advance this year

As this year’s budget negotiations approached their crunch time in late May and early June, it was fast becoming clear that little would get done toward giving reparations to the unknown number of Californians who are descended from slaves. The number is unknown, for one thing, because California was never a formal slave state and no one knows exactly how many of the enslaved were brought here from the Deep South in the years leading up to, duri…

Time to reconsider the slavery reparation debate

With evidence that perhaps as many as 1 million Africans are still enslaved – bought, sold and owned by Africans today – why are we looking at issues from two or three centuries ago? Men and women trapped in Libya’s notorious detention centres or inherited in Mauritania need to be freed now. This article from the Round Table explores the question, and goes on to ask why only the West is being asked for reparations. It also explores failure of th…